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Harqus ibn Zuhayr al-Sa'di

حرقوص بن زهير السعدي

A leader of the rioters in Basra at the time of the Camel, one of the few to escape the killing of Uthman's killers there; later a Kharijite commander, killed at Nahrawan in 38 AH according to al-Sallabi.

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The Rashidun Caliphate
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Levant & Iraq
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حرقوص بن زهير السعدي من زعماء الثوار في البصرة أيام وقعة الجمل، ثم صار من قادة الخوارج وقُتل في النهروان. 1

في البصرة

يروي الصلابي أن القعقاع بن عمرو قال لطلحة والزبير إن ستمائة من قتلة عثمان كانوا في البصرة قُتلوا كلهم إلا حرقوص بن زهير السعدي، وأنه احتمى بقومه من بني سعد. 2 وفي رسالة عائشة إلى أهل الشام، كما ينقلها الصلابي، أن حرقوص بن زهير وحده أفلت من القتل بين قتلة عثمان في البصرة. 3

في النهروان

يذكر الصلابي أن حرقوص بن زهير كان أحد أمراء الخوارج في النهروان، ويذكر أنه تولى الرجالة في جيشهم، وأنه قُتل فيها سنة 38هـ. 1

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Battle of Nahrawan

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Battle of Nahrawan

Sources

  1. Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Amir al-Mu'minin Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 2 , p. 177
  2. Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Amir al-Mu'minin Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 2 , p. 51
  3. Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Amir al-Mu'minin Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 2 , p. 44
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Battle of Nahrawan

Ali ibn Abi Talib's fighting against the Kharijites, who rebelled against him after the arbitration. Al-Tabari's index to volume five places “the account of the day of the river” among the events of the years 37 to 38 AH, and there it is stated that the Kharijites were struck at the river. In al-Suyuti's account, the Kharijites came out after the arbitration, saying 'judgement belongs to God alone', and encamped at Harura. Ali sent Ibn Abbas to them; he debated with them and persuaded many of them to return, while others held firm and marched to Nahrawan, where they blocked the road. Ali marched against them and killed them, including Dhu al-Thudayya; this was in 38 AH. In al-Mas'udi's account, the Kharijites gathered four thousand men and pledged allegiance to Abd Allah ibn Wahb al-Rasibi at al-Mada'in; they slaughtered Abd Allah ibn Khabbab and ripped open the belly of his wife. Ali marched against them in 38 AH with thirty-five thousand men, including ten thousand from Basra, among them al-Ahnaf. A man from the Jews of al-Sawad told him that they had crossed the river of Tabaristan; Ali swore that they had not crossed it and that their dead lay at al-Rumayla, short of it, and said, 'Not one of them will escape except ten, and not one of you will be killed except ten'; so it was.